GRAPHIC PICS: Gorgeous actress has face EATEN away by common virus

Beautiful Tran Thi Yen Nhung, 28, was following her dreams of a career on the big screen when she first started suffering pains inside her nose.

Doctors in home country Vietnam diagnosed her with Sinusitis – a common viral infection that generally clears up after a couple of weeks.

But after the pain worsened, Nhung's family desperately searched for cures before taking her to be operated on a year later.

But the surgery made the infection even worse and despite her family racking up bills of 500million VNSD (£180,000), it carried on spreading.

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“She was kind and begged for her family not to spend more money on her treatment”

Tran Van Hong

Within a year, Nhung's face had been totally eaten away and was infested with flies.

On December 27 last year, she finally succumbed to the illness and died – three years after she first got ill.

Now, her devastated family has released shocking images of the horrifying illness to warn people about the potential dangers of Sinusitis.

Her aunt Tran Van Hong said: "Seeing Nhung in so much pain was heartbreaking. She never stopped hurting.

"But she was kind and begged for her family not to spend more money on her treatment. She said she was OK, she wished not for us to cry."

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She added: "We were looking for treatment, visiting every hospital to find someone to help. Her mind was still very awake, but she could not eat or drink. Money was completely finished, we had borrowed lots to pay for medical bills.

"In the end, the disease would not go away."

Leading sinus expert Dr Wellington S. Tichenor, of the Center For Allergy-Asthma in New York, said that Nhung's severe infection was most likely caused by a combination of fungus in the sinus and poor medical treatment in developing countries.

He said: "The disease is different in different parts of the world. In the third world, the difference in medicine, climate, and medical care are much different.

"There can be, for example, a number of different problems that don't occur in western countries. That can be down to fungus that is invasive and cause fungus balls."